Goal: quicker quarter mile time for the X.

The exhaust manifold seems to be the point of contention when it comes to TT kits for the X. It's now July 2016 and no one has stepped up to the plate to make a TT kit for the X.

Supercharging is available, but the only verifiable quarter mile times I can find, put that $7,000 kit / $9,000 install at a rather flaccid 0.2 seconds quicker time than my 100% stock car. Even if it knocked off one full second, it's still not worth the large amount of trouble involved. If I'm going to go through that much trouble and money, I want to see 2 full seconds gained.

That leaves three options...

Option one: $1200-$1500 for a decent wet nitrous setup with tune. Has anyone posted a verified a 100-shot quarter mile trap speed and time and or video?

Option 2: Has anyone entertained the idea of a rear-mounted turbo? Since no one is capable of making an exhaust manifold for the X, why not just keep the existing manifold, headers, midpipes and just mount a damn single turbo near the rear of the car? It could feed air back up to a regular/existing/available intercooler from there.

Option 3: Concede defeat, get a cheap used Z32 and a $1100 turbo kit good for a solid ten second car. But it'll never be a G.

 

Rear-mount turbos are unusual. I've seen it discussed on both sr20forums (Sentras) and miata.net. Always pooh-poohed for efficiency loss. I recall one person doing it to a Sentra and he got decent results but I can't conjure up details from fifteen years ago.

Follow Frank Sinatra's advice and "do it your way". To heck with the (justified) lemmings.